Word: psychopaths
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...TIME recognized in Wyeth the fact that art is more than cleverness in balancing shapes in space and more than the personal image of a borderline psychopath, however picturesque his disturbance...
...victim was "pretty" (the Chronicle}, "vivacious" (the Examiner), "deeply religious" (the News-Call Bulletin). As doctors tried in vain to save April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was "fiendish" (the Examiner), "sadistic" (the News-Call Bulletin), "probably a sexual psychopath" (the Chronicle). Swathed in bandages and an eye patch, April posed bravely for photographers and forgave her attacker: "Anyone who is like that-we ought to feel sorry for him." But having latched onto surefire excitement, San Francisco's papers were ready neither to forgive nor forget. By last week the city...
...Laos last summer, has echoed Russia's call for an uninspected nuclear test ban. Once criticized by the former Senator William F. Knowland for his consistent advocacy of Red China's admission to the U.N., Menon acidly counseled the California Republican to "visit a doctor, a psychopath, or somebody...
Putting a psychopath on stage has become an excuse for ignoring every rule of drama. Some cute tricks by director Derick Pasternak and some good acting have not redeemed Foucheval, which lacks continuity, tone, credibility, logic, and honesty...
...inevitable and necessary in man. They are like pain: "bad" because they are discomforting, but in normal quantities necessary for survival because they warn of danger and because they make a human being responsible to others. The rare individual who feels neither guilt nor anxiety is a monster?a psychopath with no conscience. What psychologists call Urangst, or original anxiety, the anxiety that is inevitably part of any human being, is well described by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who believes that it springs from man's dual character: on the one hand, man is involved in the contingencies of nature, like...